If I have another liberal come to my site and make the argument for healthcare using public services like water I think I am going to scream. The number one argument I have received against my opposition for the public option healthcare system is municipal water supplies, police, and fire departments are all socialist programs. Since part of socialism is controlling the means of production, it’s hard to deny that public water isn’t a socialist idea; but that doesn’t make their argument legitimate.
The fallacy in their argument arises from municipal water systems aren’t controlled by the federal government, nor are the police and fire departments. The Tenth Amendment which reads: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The Constitution allows the states and the people the people the right to develop programs like municipal water service, but the Constitution clearly doesn’t give the Federal Government the same right.
The Obama healthcare plan goes beyond the limits of the Constitution by attempting to provide a healthcare system based on socialism where the government will control part of the means of production. They have no Constitutional authority to do so. They never had Constitutional authority to create Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid either. These programs violate the limits of government established in the Constitution, but Americans have accepted these programs because they are willing to sacrifice freedom because of the responsibility that comes from freedom for the illusion of a safety net. In other words, Americans have agreed to give up more of their freedom to receive a piddly retirement check rather than save and invest, and since the introduction of Social Security, Americans have irresponsibly lost their sense of frugality. Now some Americans want to surrender more of their freedoms because they think healthcare is a right.
The Tenth Amendment doesn’t outlaw public healthcare in the United States. The Constitution prevents the federal government from providing healthcare for the people of the United States. The Tenth Amendment gives each state the right to decide if it wants to provide a public healthcare system for its residents, just like it gives the states the right to drill wells and hook you up to the city water system. You are sadly mistaken if you want to use the city water examples as a reason the federal government should provide you healthcare, and frankly I am sick of hearing you liberal readers whine about healthcare and comparing it to a water system. Take your pathetic argument somewhere else. You aren’t going to win the argument here. By the way, why is it you liberal readers never want to leave a name with your city water socialist comments anyway?
If you want social medicine, you should be petitioning your state house not the federal government. You have that right, and your state has the right to provide it. You are barking up the wrong tree by thinking this is the job of the federal government.
Nice try on their part. This argument doesn't hold water.
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